"David S. Miller" wrote:> If AIO was so relevant+sexy we'd be having threads of discussion about> the AIO implementation instead of threads about how relevant it is or> is not for the general populace. Wouldn't you concur? :-)> > The people doing Java server applets are such a small fraction of the> Linux user community.

People writing code for NT/Win2K/WinXP are being channelled intousing AIO because that's the way to do things there (NT doesn'treally support nonblocking I/O). Thus another valid economicreason AIO is important is to make it easier to port code from NT.I have received requests from NT folks for things like aio_recvfrom()(and have passed them on to Ben), so I'm not just guessing here.

As should be clear from my c10k page, I love nonblocking I/O,but I firmly believe that some form of AIO is vital.